Justification of the methodology for pedestrian (bioclimatic) comfort experimental modeling

Abstract

Modern tevhniques of wind impacts on buildings and the pedestrian environment studying including experimental tests in wind tunnels and numerical modeling are summarized. A disk static pressure receiver as an effective tool for experimental evaluation of pedestrian comfort parameters and subsequent validation with computer simulation results is proposed. This tool was used for experimental modeling of the flow about primitives (cube, cylinder, parallelepiped) and their groups. To assess pedestrian comfort, numerical modeling of wind impacts on primitives was performed in the ANSYS CFX hydrogasdynamic analysis package. The data obtained numerically were validated based on the experimental modeling results; good data consistency has been obtained. The high reliability of the research technique using a disk static pressure receiver as a separate tool for determining the pedestrian (bioclimatic) comfort parameters as well as for the numerical experiments validation is shown.

Affiliated Institutions

• Moscow State University TJ
• Moscow State University of Civil Engineering RU

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